Professional No-Limit Hold 'em Volume 1 Review Thread

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Matt I have a question about SPR for you. You are advocating to play suited connectors,gappers you need a SPR of 10 and up. In your chart on page 216 you have that in a 100bb game which most games are, you should fold getting 4 calllers on the button for a 7bb raise because the SPR is 2.7???
So in a regular live 1/2 donkfest with 100bb effective stacks you fold 87sooted to a 14 dollar raise? Please explain as this just seems wrong.

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tighty,

there are circumstances under which it can be profitable to call there. however, it's not as common as most think. 87s doesn't hit the flop well nearly often enough. you must have big steal equity or payoff potential to make it worthwhile even though there are only 7bb in and you've got three opponents. we will explain this in detail and provide the math that backs it up in volume 2.

matt

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This is counterintuitive and took a little thought on my part. But it makes perfect sense.

After all, assume a SPR of 1 and you have a flush draw and he has an overpair. You both will commit to the flop. You might even have a little of the best of it, getting 2:1 on a 35% shot. But he has WAY the best of it, getting 2:1 himself with a 65% shot. Which hand would you rather have?

When the SPR gets small, you want a hand that usually gets there on the flop. Not a drawing hand that usually needs to see 4-5 cards before it knows whether it got there.